On 10/11/2009 11:56 AM, John Beardmore wrote: > Bruce Griffis wrote: > >> When putting this together, wuld I treat each chapter as a separate >> file, then merge them? Would I do it as one file and just deal with >> the length of time it takes to load (right now I'm at 124 pages). > > I've formed the unverified impression that if you keen keep chunks of > text down to just a few linked text frames, things slow down a lot > less quickly as the number of pages increases. > > With 1.3.3.12 I've been up to about 60 pages. While not fast, speed > was not a problem. > > 1.3.5.x is supposed to be quicker with large documents, so you may get > away without splitting it, and I certainly wouldn't split it until you > have to. Maybe a future GSOC project might be to find a way to link documents, so that one could sequentially and automatically load documents, and maybe even sequentially export them to a single PDF. (Just some off the top of my head thinking)
Greg
